Packing and delivering gramophone and like needles



July 17, 1923. 1,462,056 c, WEST PACKING AND DELIVERING GRAMOPHONE AND LIKE NEEDLES Filed Jani 21, 1922 Patented .luly lfl, 1923.

CLIFTON WEST, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

PACKING AND DELIVERING GRAMOPHONE AND LIKE NEEDLES.-

Application'filed January 21, 1922. Serial No. 530,964.

To all whom it may concern: I I

Be it known that I, CLIFTON Wnsr, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of London, England, have invented certrain new and useful Improvements in Packing and Delivering Gramophone and like Needles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in packing and delivering gramophone and like needles and has for its object to provide a device that serves as a container or magazine for such needlesand from which one needle at a time may be ejected ready for use as required. The container or magazine is of such a character as to constitute a refill which can be readily placed in a spring sup port that is attached to any convenient part of the cabinet of the instrument for example, for which theneedles are required, the support being provided with means for ejecting the needles one by one as above described. i

Inthe accompanying drawings the improvements aforesaid are illustrated, in

which Figure l. is a perspective view of the con tainer or magazine supported in anornamental base or holder.

Figure 2. a front elevation partly tion of the combination.

Figure 3. an end view of the same, and Figures 45 and 5. respectively partial front elevation and transverse section of the container or magazine that constitutes the refill. Similar letters of reference relate to like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

On reference to the drawings it will be observed that the container or magazine a is made of sheet metal folded in any suitable manner to approximately the length and breadth of the size of the needles 7) which it is intended to contain. This container a is provided at its base with holes 0 from one of which the needles 6 are ejected one by one when the container or magazine is placed in position on itssupport. p i

The container a is also provided with small pips or projections cl which coincide with similar indents provided onthe spring in secclip of the support as hereinafter described so that the same shall be supported in its correct position relative to the ejector which forms part of the base or support.

In the drawing is illustrated an ornamental base 6 of the-configuration of a guncarriage the upper portion carrying a pair of spring clips that constitute the holder forthe container or magazine a the lower end of the said container fitting between the abutment-s formed by the removal of the centralportion of the gun barrel 9 so that the i holes 0 in the container at coincide with the bore of the said barrel 9 wherein is mounted the ejector plunger it that is operable by the handle 2'. It will be understood that-given the fixture e attached to any suitable part ofthe cabinet of the instrument and the contalneror magazine a slipped into position within the spring holder 7 the needles twill automatically drop one by one into such a position that by the to and "fro movements of successively ejected from the gunbarrel p,

and upon the container a being emptied it can be removed and another one put in its lace.

- Any suitable form of clip may be employed for temporarily covering up the holes 0 in the container 00 as for example-the spring clip j as shown in Figures 4 and'5, which can be readily removed before inserting the container within the spring support 7" provided therefor on the base 6. I i i What I claim is 1. The combination with a fixed support, a holder carried by said fixed support and a reciprocal plunger mounted in said support and operating in the bore of a barrel formed therein of a replaceable magazine comprise ing a closed container, for gramophone nee.- dles provided with apertures in its sides, said apertures registering with the said bore when the magazine is placed within the said holder and means for retaining said magazine in its operative position therein for, ejection of the needle contents by the afore said reciprocal plunger. l

2. The combination with a fixed support, a spring holder carried by said fixed support.

. the Plunger 72, the several needles 5 will be H and a reciprocal plunger mounted in said support and operating in the bore of a barrel formed therein of a replaceable magazine comprising a closed container for gramo- 5 phone needles provided with apertures in its sides, said apertures registering with the said bore when the magazine is placed Within the said spring holder and means for retaining said magazine in its operative position therein for ejection of the needle contents by the 10 aforesaid reciprocal plunger.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CLIFTON WEST. 

